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So Sir Elton John wants to meet Vladimir Putin over tea and cake to see if he can bring him round to the idea of gay people being actual human beings without horns, scales, or the tentacles we presumably use to shove our sexuality in people's faces. It's not his worst idea (see rewriting Candle in the Wind in the 90s and most of his sartorial decisions) but there isn't a news outlet in the world that wouldn’t want to be a fly on the wall (or a bug in the lampshade) for that meeting.

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